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Drums & Percussion

101 Nepro 808 Rap- Drum Kit

151 Gated Drums

102 Nepro 909 Dance- Drum Kit

153 Metal Drums

103 01W Drum Kit

160 Rock Drum Kit

104 Linn 9000 Drums

161 Rock Drum Kit Vol-2

105 Rap Drums-1

184 Assorted Kicks

106 Rap Drums-2

185 Assorted Snares

129 Assorted Percussion-4

186 Asstd Hi-Hats & Cymbals

108 Latin & Ethnic Perc-1

187 Hip Hop Kit

109 Latin & Ethnic Perc-2

190 Funk Kit Vol-1

110 Latin & Ethnic Perc-3

191 Funk Kit Vol-2

128 Techno Drums

192 Classic Beat Boxes

Basses & Guitars

118 Assorted Basses

148 Mod Basses

134 Metal Guitar

149 Chopper Bass

135 Acoustic Guitar

150 Assorted Moog Basses

139 12 String Guitar

166 Moog & Acoustic Bass

Strings

121 String Orchestra-1

130 Spacy Strings/Voices

122 String Orchestra-2

162 Pizzi String/Solo Violin

123 Double Bass/Cello

163 Assorted Hits & Strings

127 Violin/Cello

179 Violins & Pizzi Strings

Keyboards

126 Acoustic Piano

165 Steinway Grand Piano

132 Hammond B3 (Full Stops)

182 D6 Clavinet-1

133 Hammond B3 (Percussion)

183 D6 Clavinet-2

141 Funky Clavinet

Synths

117 Fairlight Voices

173 FM Synclavier Mix

138 Assorted PPG Wave Sounds

174 Asstd Wavestation Sounds-1

140 K250 Choir

176 KN Prophet VS Sounds-1

146 T1 Bass/Fanfare

177 KN Prophet VS Sounds-2

147 Eastern Synths

180 KN 01W Sounds-1

152 KN SY77 Sounds

181 KN 01W Sounds-2

155 Asstd Rave/Dance Sounds

193 Asstd Techno Analog Sounds

156 KN T1 Strings/Bells

Assorted Instruments

115 Choir

158 House Mix -2
More House Samples

119 Synth Brass

159 House Mix-3

120 Tenor Sax/Punch Brass

164 Orchestra & Brass Hits

124 Harp Glissando's

169 Brass/Strings/Percussion
Voice/Bass

131 Orchestra Hits #1

142 Oboe/Shakuhachi Flute

171 Sleigh Bells

143 Flute/Piccolo

172 Choir / Brass

144 Asstd Mallets/Bells

175 Workststion Disk:
Brass/Strings/Synth Piano/Bass

145 Asstd Wood Flutes

154 Pop Brass

178 Orchestra Hits-2

157 House Mix-1
(Loops/Hits/Basses)

188 Hip Hop Hits & Bits Vol-1

189 Hip Hop Hits & Bits Vol-2

Assorted Special Effects

111 Asstd Effects (9 Sounds)

136 Jets/Nature Sounds

112 Gong/Surf

137 Applause/Cow/Motorcycle/More

113 Train/Train Horn

167 Effects-1 Owl/Dogs/Bugs/
Screams, More!

114 Storm/Wind

116 James Brown

168 Asstd Effects-2 Cuckoo/
Alarm/EngineLaughing & More!

125 Synth Clavi/Breaking Glass

170 Asstd Jungle Noises

Many people might not realize that Akai has been around as an electric company since 1929, but they really started to get into the world of music sampling in 1986 when they released the S900, which is considered to be their first "professional digital sampler". The S900's 12 bit sampling and variable sampling rates up to 40K was state of the art in affordable samplers back in 1986. It was also one of the first rack mount samplers to include a built in 3.5 floppy drive and designed to compete with the EMU Emax, Ensoniq Mirage, Casio FZ1 and Sequential Prophet 2000 which were the other affordable samplers on the market at the time.

Editing via the S900's tiny display was always a challenge, but once you got the hang of how everything is set up there are lots of cool edit capabilities for truncating, tuning and even analog-like parameters to control. You can also get crossfade looping in Version 2.0 of the operating system. Most people use it these days for drum sounds due to the small amount of memory in RAM, but it can also be used for a wide variety of sounds as long as you keep the samples short. Our 93 disk library has a great selection of sounds on those old 3.5 "double sided/double density" floppy disks which are very hard to find these days.

The Akai S900 Rackmount Digital Sampler

The maximum is sampling time is 11.75 seconds at its highest sampling rate of 40kHz, or even more when lowering the sampling rate to 7.5kHz. Ram memory is 750KB and is not expandable. Options for the S900 included the IB-101 A/S HD interface, and Marion Systems' MS-9c which changed the S900 from 12-bit to 16-bits. The S-950 was Akai's follow up the S-900 and offered increased memory and sampling rates and features like the ability to time-stretch samples. Memory could be expanded from 750KB to 2.25MB with a host of third party expansion boards. The sample rate was now variable from 7.5 to 48kHz and it could hold up to 99 samples in memory.

If your just getting into digital samplers and on a budget, an S900 or S950 is worth looking into. You can probably pick one up for a couple of hundred US dollars on Ebay. We also sell used music gear and often have an old S900 or S950 in stock at a very reasonable price and unlike ebay we give you a three month warranty on all our used gear. For the low cost your getting a great sampler then you can use to explore the world of sampling. Our Akai S900 or S950 sound library also contains a great mix of sounds that you can use to create tracks or use on a live gig. Our floppy disks are only $10. each so for a small investment in an old Akai and a few floppy's you can get started sampling.

If you have any questions or comments please contact us via phone or e-mail. Thank's for your support and Happy Sampling!